Machines Quotes - Page 21

I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink.

The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes; And galvanism has set some corpses grinning, But has not answer'd like the apparatus Of the Humane Society's beginning, By which men are unsuffocated gratis: What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.

The amount of things you can do with a kettlebell is unsurpassed by any other training equipment - dumbbells, resistance machines, free weights.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

In hell, all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you.

Screening telephone calls with a receptionist or the humbler answering machine is not a dishonorable thing to do. The warmest people in the world still need uninterrupted time to attend to their lives and should not be outwitted if they have made it obvious that they are not always available upon summons.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business

Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine.

They say - "they" being the great philosophers, or possibly the cast of Seinfeld - that breaking up is like pushing over a Coke machine. You can't just do it, you have to set the thing in motion, rock it back and forth a few times.